He described mining hydrothermal vents as "more invasive" because it would involve breaking up the uppermost metre of the sea floor and piping the rock fragments to the surface.
BBC: UK Seabed Resources joins deep-ocean mineral-mining rush
All of the ground floor rooms and villas feature an outdoor lava rock shower located just around the corner from the indoor bathroom. (Second-floor rooms have bigger lanais and better views of the secluded Kona-Kohala coast, since they are higher up.) Move from the bathroom to the slate stepping-stones on your private lanai for a blissful outdoor rain shower.
On Earth, sea-floor spreading is fuelled by molten rock upwelling from deep inside the Earth.
It follows a major rock fall at the quarry in April 2012 that saw half a million tonnes of rock cover the quarry floor and hamper operations at the site.
The crater floor is made of relatively new volcanic rock, formed by lava flows that would have covered any evidence of ancient bodies of water.
The test well, Jack-2, delved through 7, 000 feet of water and 20, 000 feet of sea floor to tap oil trapped in tertiary rock laid down 60 million years ago.
"People have looked at this show and seen a capability and an aspiration that they would not have expected from us, " he said during an interview in his stark white and frill-free office on the 21st floor of the company's 30 Rock headquarters last week.
Anything substantially lower will indicate that oil is escaping through some broken piping and flowing into other rock formations below the sea floor with the possibility that it could find a way to burst through the floor into the sea from a different location.
' Furry little dassie (rock hyrax) scurry along the forest floor - incongruously, the animal's closest relatives are elephants, though they look more like overgrown guinea pigs.
The company says surveys have revealed huge numbers of so-called nodules - small lumps of rock rich in valuable metals - lying on the ocean floor south of Hawaii and west of Mexico.
BBC: UK Seabed Resources joins deep-ocean mineral-mining rush
Undercover police in Hard Rock Cafe T-shirts escorted two people off the dance floor.
Jonathan said maybe six words during his interview for entry to the program, and despite Compton-Rock's best mothering skills he never lifted his eyes from the floor.
If you're staying on a Friday night, rock your body to the tunes of celebrity and guest DJs at the fifth floor's C5 Nightclub where you'll enjoy VIP access to handcrafted cocktails, state-of-the-art sound and an opulent boutique atmosphere.
However, during that last quarter of the hour, the deejay begins to play either rap, rock or, you know, some sort of dance music, and the dance floor always gets packed during the rap portion of the hour.
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